Round Court
Names
- Round Court
- Old Round Court
Street/Area/District
- Round Court
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Round Court
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Old Round Court
- 1799 London (Horwood): Round Court
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Round court, on the NW side of the Strand, almost against Buckingham str. end.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Round Court, after a narrow Passage through an Entry out of the Strand, openeth into a pretty square Court; and from that into another Place, which leadeth into another Entry, and so into Shandois-street. This Place is of considerable Note, and much resorted unto, as being inhabited by Silk-men, Mercers, and Lace-men, who drive a considerable Trade, occasioned from the Opinion that the Females have, that they there buy better Pennyworths than elsewhere.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Round-Court (Old), Strand,—at 436, E. side of the last, leading to 13, Chandos-st.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Round Court, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, on the north-west side of the Strand, "almost," says Hatton, "against Buckingham Street end." It is particularly mentioned in No. 304 of the Spectator, and is carefully laid down in Strype's Map of St. Martin' s-in-the-Fields. It was partly in the Bermudas and partly in Porridge Island. The site is now occupied by the Charing Cross Hospital. A once popular book, Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen (fol. 1736), was "Printed for and Sold by Olive Payne at Horace's Head in Round Court in the Strand, over against York Buildings."